Pull apart cheese pepper bread

I have attempted making pull apart bread several times…let me tell you exactly how many times, 4 times ( if i do not count the cover ups..I never wanted to make this bread, the yeast failed yet again…this kind of bread is not fluffy..etc). Well, you might think I have great perseverance. Not always, but with this bread I did not feel like giving up. This bread has that artistic edge to it.

So this time with my new found secret (YES!!) bread flour recipe I made yet another attempt. The bread actually needs good quality ingredients else it may become sticky at the center where you place the cheese or butter.

Now before you forget about the bread flour..we do not get good quality bread flour easily in India. Even if we do, it is pretty expensive especially if you are like me experimenting where the chances of recipe going bust is higher. After reading a lot about bread flour and its textures, I made my own version.

Ingredients

3 1/2 cups Whole wheat Bread flour

2/3 cup milk + 2 tbsp milk

1/4 cup water

1/2 cup oil/ 75 gm butter

2 1/4 tspn active dry yeast

2 tspn salt

2 tbsp sugar

for filling

25-30 gm cheese (cheddar or parmesan)

2 tspn black pepper crushed

1 tspn mixed herbs (oregano, basil, rosemary)

Method

1) Mix the milk, oil ,sugar and butter and warm it till the mixture is homogeneous

2) Set aside the milk mixture till it is warm.

3) Mix the flour with salt and yeast.

4) Make a well in the flour basin, add the milk mixture and start kneading till it is soft and pliable about 10 min.